user name length

[Pocius Arturas]

Hello,
How can add user with name more than 8 characters.
(HP-UX 10.20, E35)

Thank you

[Patrick Wallek]

The short answer is you should not.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xe12d31ec5e34d711abdc0090277a778c,00.html

[Pete Randall]

The link Patrick pointed you to will tell you that, while you can accomplish this (via a patch), you really shouldn't. You're inviting all sorts of problems. Leave it at 8 characters.

Pete

[Michael Steele_2]

set_parms hostname has all the "basic" information. It specifies 64 characters but this includes the domain. This is called the fully qualified hostname. 8 characters is for uname.

[Pocius Arturas]

Thank you for the answers.
In my case I need longer names to support login from Windows clients to samba server shared resources on HP10.20. And I need that these user names be the same both for Windows domain (which is more than 8 char.) and samba client logins to shares.

Arturas

[Pete Randall]

Good luck!

Pete

[Darren Prior]

Hi,

There is a way round this if you only require the long names for Samba.

The "username map" variable can be pointed to a file that looks something like this:

mylogin = mylongwinlogin
darrenp = darrenprior
bob = bobtheadmin

Then you can have short login names on the HP-UX box which are mapped from the long Windows usernames.

See p162 in the Using Samba book from O'Reilly, or look up username map in your documentation.

regards,

Darren.

[Michael Steele_2]

Pocius
Refer to "username map":

EXAMPLE 1a:

vi /etc/smb.conf

[global]
username map = /etc/samba/usermap.txt

EXAMPLE 1b:

vi usermap.txt file

# unix name = SMB client username

jarwin = JosephArwin
manderso = MarkAnderson
users = @account